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Jul 2021
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GR: Big Tech, What's Next? With Marietje...

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On this episode of Global Reboot, FP Editor in Chief Ravi Agrawal interviews Marietje Schaake, former Member of the EU Parliament, and Vivian Schiller, former President and CEO of NPR as well as the former Head of News at Twitter, on Big Tech's expansive role in our civic lives. Is high-tech a tool to further democratization or for greater oppression? And what solutions should be considered as governments look to regulate big tech?

Global Reboot is a FP Partner Podcast with the Doha Forum.


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